Learn from our distinguished panelists how to write compelling dialogue that draws readers in & keeps their attention. Added bonus feature: listen to them argue the pros & cons of dialogue tags!
Writing requires more than putting words on paper; you also have to edit & revise your work to make it as good as possible. Learn the best ways to edit your writing from some masters of the craft.
All authors want to write passages that tug at the heartstrings, evoke the sadness a character feels, or inspire the reader with wonder. Learn how to make your writing appeal to the reader's emotions.
Learn to write defining moments that change everything for your character, & discover how to seed the story with hooks that make the moment feel inevitable when it arrives.
Explicit sex scenes are perhaps the easiest type of scene to write badly. Learn from the pros how to turn up the sexual heat without making your readers laugh mockingly.
Writer's Craft: Finding Work for Your Inner Critic—Self-Editing for Fiction Writers
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Discover how to spot your story’s weaknesses and whip your prose into shape, before it goes out to agents, editors, or your readers.
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Before your story goes out into the world, make it the best it can be! We’ll discuss story structure and how to use it to find weak points, what the rules are and how to know when to ignore them, and the best ways to get your words into fighting shape. There will be an extended question and answer section for specifics and a chance to do guided line-editing on your own work. Erin M. Evans is the author of the award-winning Brimstone Angels saga and a fiction editor. ***Bring a 3-5 pages of your work-in-progress and a colored pen.***
New York Times Bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole takes you through a series of exercises that will let you build a story from the barest spark through twists & turns.
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New York Times Bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole takes you through a series of exercises that will let you build a story from the barest spark through twists and turns. He’ll give you several story recipes and show you how you can work from them to create delightfully complex and engrossing stories.
Writer's Craft: Hickman's Guide to the Care & Feeding of Your Audience
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It's no longer about being published—it's all about being READ! NYT Best-selling author gives fun & functional advice on acquiring, growing & maintaining your audience.
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It's no longer about being published ... it's all about being READ! International and NYT Best-selling fantasy author (Dragonlance) gives fun and functional advice on acquiring, growing and maintaining your audience as the key to a career in writing.
There's nothing wrong with high fantasy clichés, but we'll teach you ways to explore high fantasy storytelling in new ways without coming across like you're looking down on the genre.
Writer's Craft: How to Create a More Realistic Fictitious World
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Join award-winning author Maxwell Alexander Drake as he lets you in on some of the secrets he uses to create vibrant and realistic worlds.
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Have you ever wondered how sci-fi and fantasy authors create such vibrant, detailed worlds that suck their readers in and wrap them in a blanket so real, you question why our own world is not more like theirs? Join award-winning author Maxwell Alexander Drake as he lets you in on some of the secrets he uses to create worlds during his seminar “How to Create a More Realistic Fictitious World.”